Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in Maine and the county seat of Penobscot County. It was incorporated as a New England town in 1791, and it was named for Bangor in County Down. Bangor arose as a lumbering boom-town in the 1830s, and it was, for a time, the largest lumber port in the world. In 2012, Bangor had a population of 32,817 people.